The four seasons : a novel of Vivaldi's Venice /
Laurel Corona.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Voice/Hyperion, c2008.
- 389 p. ; 21 cm.
When three-year-old Maddalena and her infant sister, Chiaretta, are abandoned at a Venice's hospital, Chiaretta earns a position as a soloist and aristocratic marriage while the dark, quiet Maddalena eventually takes up the violin with Antonio Vivaldi, a controversial musician who becomes her teacher and expresses his love in his music.